{"product_id":"letters-isabella-andreini-9781649590855","title":"Letters: Volume 100","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Isabella Andreini (1562-1604) was a commedia dell'arte diva who toured Italy and France as part of the Compagnia dei Comici Gelosi. \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of epistles written by Andreini in fictional, anonymous, male, and female voices, a \"hermaphroditic\" alternation of gender unlike any that had been seen in letter writing to that time. In her letters, Andreini remade the humanistic epistolary genre into a distinctive fusion of literary and dramatic performance. The guise of epistolary intimacy cedes to a knowing artificiality, which allows for the emergence of Andreini's modern critique of the gendered self as a uniform entity. The collection centers on love and examines--from surprising perspectives--pertinent issues such as death, the birth of a girl, prostitution, patriarchal marital practices, love in old age, courtiership, country and city life, human nature, and defenses and critiques of both sexes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Isabella Andreini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1649590857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781649590855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Iter Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Isabella Andreini","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47244201001215,"sku":"9781649590855","price":61.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd48bd19-7ad5-4057-bd79-20355d3f88c8.jpg?v=1758135175","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/letters-isabella-andreini-9781649590855","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}